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Edited by Mrph1 on Jul 29th 2024 at 3:09:00 PM
Fairly sure he has slowed aging as a thing anyway. He looks middle aged but has looked middle aged for a long while.
Forever liveblogging the AvengersMaybe he could play the new Blue Marvel. Maybe Blue Marvel dies and Max picks up the mantle. Start the movie as a villain, partly because of his brother's disappearance, partly because of his disappointment in his father being reluctant to be a hero.
Adam then does the heroic sacrifice and the movie ends with Max picking up the mantle.
That, or he could play Nighthawk.
Boyega was my fan cast for Blade, because he has a convincing American accent and I could see him alternating between American and British accents and "code switching" at various points in Blade's life. For the same reason, he's my pick for Charlie/Spider in an adaptation of American Gods.
Unfortunately, there's a real dearth of MCU heroes, especially among "A List", "B List", and even "C List" characters. As a note, although Night Thrasher and Rage do fit in well with current events, there's something about their general framing that feels condescending/not sympathetic.
I agree that Patriot would be a good choice (maybe a combination of the two).
I have wanted to see "Kasper" Cole adapted, because he's weirdly like a Good Counterpart of the MCU Killmonger (specifically, I like the contrast between no one believing Killmonger about Wakanda growing up and Cole not believing his father about Wakanda growing up). Boyega doesn't really have the right look for Cole, but that's never really been of much import to me.
Not sure whether a black police officer dealing with corrupt cops would be a great or terrible choice though.
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So... just invent an entirely new character that has minimal connection to the original one and change the stories the original one was in, if they're ever adapted?
Blue Marvel has slowed aging but still has grey temples. In the comics he and Anti-Man were Korean war vets (presumably born in the 1930's) who were involved in government super-science and had a lab accident. He was active pre/during Civil Rights era until the US gov't... did what the US gov't does to black civil rights heroes.
While they could move up whatever conflict he was a veteran of (since the US is in near-constant war anyway), and we have a handy dandy 60-year stretch where he and Anti-Man could've been working on Project Pegasus with the Tesseract (which is even blue!), the Civil Rights era is an effective time-lock for where part of his story would need to be to explain why he's been inactive, and that he had to have gotten powers before then. Plus he kind of needs to be an older adult to have some of that weight behind his life experience.
Something I meant to note RE Blade is that another reason I liked Boyega (although I think Mahershala Ali is a great choice) is that I think it is a good way of highlighting slowed aging to have the character played by a younger actor.
And the same would be my thought for Blue Marvel and also for Magneto. And I'd include his Holocaust survivor backstory.
In particular (I had been thinking this for Magneto but it would definitely also work with Blue Marvel), it makes for a nice implied or explicit contrast with Captain America to have other characters that are an "old man in a young man's body", but are rather more cynical because they are from a minority group and actually lived through the parts of the 20th century that Steve missed.
Edited by Hodor2 on Jun 4th 2020 at 10:51:07 AM
....ouch.
So it's literally because Rise of Skywalker is considered that bad huh?
Honestly, the movie managed to not disappoint me because I set my standards so completely low, so I guess it's hard to fully grasp how much people hate it.
One Strip! One Strip!Boyega wasn't happy with some of the developments of the Sequel Trilogy, in particular how Finn was heavily underutilized in Rise of Skywalker despite being one of the leads.
As far I know, there hasn't been issues with pay disputes or on-set confrontations (although correct me if I'm wrong). Just general disappointment and exhaustion from working on a big-budget franchise.
Edited by chasemaddigan on Jun 4th 2020 at 4:15:07 AM
Short version: There seemed to be a long term story plan. Disney wanted to go the Marvel route of switching directors for each movie. After the second movie (which had legitimate script issues), things seemed disjointed. A vocal, toxic group of fans revolted, being especially toxic to certain female characters and stories, in addition to the legitimate script issues. Disney overcorrected by going back to the first director, and stuffing the film full of fanservice to one of the three main storylines in the saga, at the expense of the other 2. There were several plot holes, certain characters shafted, and while they got to the ending eventually, it was exceptionally rock to jump there, and no one was happy (not the fanboys who were catered to, or the actors who got switched up on, or the directors)
That’s not exactly what happened by a long shot. Boyega was complaining as early as TLJ and how it turned his character into little more besides comic relief. It was just when ROS came out and showed no interest in doing anything with his character in favor of nostalgia pandering and the Reylo romance that Boyega turned his filter off. He’s made it no secret he’s not fond of Disney.
Edited by Beatman1 on Jun 4th 2020 at 4:38:15 AM
Sounds like he's completely justified in every thing.
Especially his anger at some of the fans.
Carry on Boyega. Carry on.
It sounds like Disney has created another Alec Guiness situation to be honest.
One Strip! One Strip!

Correct me if I'm wrong, but didn't Boyega say he was reluctant to work with Disney again after the whole Star Wars debacle? Or was that Oscar Isaac (or both of them)?